2015-03-31T20:49:43ZDisciplining Madness, Disciplining Yogahttp://hdl.handle.net/1974/8294
Title: Disciplining Madness, Disciplining Yoga
Authors: Eaton, Mark
Abstract: This paper will examine contemporary North American yoga, specifically the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in Toronto, using theoretical frameworks taken from the work of Michel Foucault. Drawing on his work in Discipline and Punish, it will look at yoga as a modern “carceral” institution. Using Foucault’s analysis in Madness and Civilizaition, this paper will explore how yoga intersects, is some ways, with madness. The underlying argument is that yoga and madness, as discourses, are both based upon institutional disciplining of pre-discursive experiences. This paper contends that the pre-discursive “sources” of experience should not be seen as unified points of origin, but as an underlying “difference”, or capacity to be otherwise. This “difference” points to multiple, undifferentiated, mutual sources of yoga and madness.2013-09-19T04:00:00ZWords Made Manifest: Canadian Print Media as Architects of Religion in the “Secular” Public Spherehttp://hdl.handle.net/1974/7627
Title: Words Made Manifest: Canadian Print Media as Architects of Religion in the “Secular” Public Sphere
Authors: Nieman, Sarah
Abstract: Early to mid-twentieth century scholarship on religion and the “secular” public sphere largely perpetuated the Enlightenment categorization of religion as an element of the private sphere, not to be influential in public matters. Recently, however, a paradigm shift has emerged that has forced the re-evaluation of religion’s place in society. Spatial methodologies from scholars such as Henri Lefebvre and Kim Knott have allowed for religion to be considered as one of a number of constructs that influence the lives and spatial experiences of people. Applying the spatial methodologies of Lefebvre and Knott, I demonstrate how Canadian print media can be considered to be a gauge of the active presence of religion in the public sphere by revealing the ways in which the media construct the space they inhabit. This is done by considering two recent events in Canada that highlight the presence of the “religious other”: the 2002 kirpan debate in Quebec and the 2003 sharia law debate in Ontario. Through these cases, I explore how the conception, perception, and lived reality of the “religious other” as a spatial quality are solidified through the perceived sense of what Ulrich Beck considers to be risk and catastrophe. I ultimately conclude that, through this perceived sense of risk, Canadian print media’s portrayals of the “religious other” allow religion to remain manifest in the Canadian public sphere.2012-11-02T04:00:00ZBeing and Becoming: Analyzing the Negotiation of Spiritual, Religious, and Sexual Identities in Nonheterosexual British and American Young People through the Lens of Queer Theoryhttp://hdl.handle.net/1974/7422
Title: Being and Becoming: Analyzing the Negotiation of Spiritual, Religious, and Sexual Identities in Nonheterosexual British and American Young People through the Lens of Queer Theory
Authors: Gallini, Thomas James
Abstract: Despite the large amount of research on religious young people, and research on the formation of young people‘s sexual identity, there is little research addressing the bearing that religion plays on identity construction in young people. Helping to fill this gap in the research, this paper investigates how young people simultaneously negotiate religious, spiritual, and sexual identities. Utilizing first-hand accounts from religious and spiritual young people from projects in the United Kingdom and the United States, this paper explores nonheterosexual youth as a site of liminality through the lens of queer theory. Participants in the studies demonstrated different approaches to the negotiation of multiple identities, including tension and conflict, compartmentalization, and integration, as well as differing levels of awareness of relevant concepts such as performativity and heteronormativity.2012-09-05T04:00:00ZCavanaugh's Myth-Appropriation of Ideology: A Critical Review of The Myth of Religious Violencehttp://hdl.handle.net/1974/7421
Title: Cavanaugh's Myth-Appropriation of Ideology: A Critical Review of The Myth of Religious Violence
Authors: Anthony, Charlotte Rae
Abstract: In The Myth of Religious Violence, William Cavanaugh deconstructs the category of “religion” in
an attempt to undermine the distinction between “religious” violence and “secular” violence, and
to examine the way in which this construction manifests itself in the conceptual apparatus of
contemporary Western society. This paper focuses on how Cavanaugh uses the categories “myth”
and “ideology.” Cavanaugh’s given definition and employment of “myth” is sensitive to broader
conceptions of the category in myth-studies. Unlike “myth,” Cavanaugh does not offer a
definition “ideology,” but he employs the term in two ways: (1) as an all-encompassing category
that seems to override definitional issues with “religion” and; (2) pejoratively to signal the falsity
of putatively “secular ideology” that is responsible for the creation and maintenance of the “myth
of religious violence.” In particular, Cavanaugh does not recognize the “mythic” dimension of his
use of the concept of “ideology.” Cavanaugh’s use of “ideology” appears to replace the general
argument that “religion causes violence” with the equally general argument that “ideology causes
violence” without informing his reader what he means by “ideology.”2012-09-05T04:00:00Z